“Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted.” – Dr. Jules Hilbert, Stranger than Fiction ... Movie Quotes Database

Dr. Jules Hilbert

Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted.

Harold Crick

What is wrong with you? Hey, I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?

Dr. Jules Hilbert

Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes.

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